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Definition of expansionism in English:

expansionism

noun

‘Politics, he says, has ceased to gravitate around expansionism and national glory.’

‘The latter typically assessed the prospects for Communist expansionism in different regions of the world.’

‘The Gadsden Purchase represents a point of intersection between mid-nineteenth-century commercial expansionism and the debate over slavery.’

‘The Cold War - based on false assumptions of Soviet expansionism - ended in 1991.’

‘France is no longer a knee-jerk supporter of the country's militarism and expansionism.’

‘Looking for Western cash, wider global influence, and reassurance about Nato expansionism, he could not have been more cooperative.’

‘The proper response to racism is not to encourage its victims to flee, much less flee to a country whose history, politics and expansionism makes it a more dangerous place for those who are seeking refuge.’

‘My books talk about communist expansionism being turned back around the world with the help of Margaret Thatcher, the Pope, and many brave souls in Europe.’

‘Outward expansionism looked even more attractive, and political and military leaders increasingly talked of establishing a co-prosperity sphere in Asia.’

‘But the enemy will pay dearly later, on top of what it is paying at present for its reckless policies of greed and expansionism.’

‘The current edition has 236 pages, only about 20 of which deal with the 1920-1945 period, the height of Japanese expansionism.’

‘Foreign policy concerns in the 1930s centered on Soviet and German expansionism, which stimulated abortive efforts at Nordic defense cooperation.’

‘He broke with the mainstream conservatism in the early 1960s, primarily over issues of foreign policy and military expansionism.’

‘I also believed in the necessity of being frank about how I looked at them and their expansionism and so forth.’

‘The two leaders also discussed the plan to develop a national missile defense plan which China opposes as inviting military expansionism, the sources said.’

‘The failure of strategy in electoral terms would give him a golden opportunity to identify his opponent with economic expansionism.’

‘He is particularly good on the Fischer thesis that was at one time popular, of the war as the outcome of a premeditated program of German expansionism.’

‘It was pitched as an effort to stop Communist expansionism.’

‘One camp inclines toward automatic hostility to any American military intervention; the other veers toward an embrace of American expansionism.’

‘By the 1890s the domestic frontier was exhausted, and expansionism took Americans into territories overseas.’